10+ years leading large-scale production software systems
5+ years organizational leadership experience
Experience organizing and running oncall rotations
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Waymo is seeking a Principal Software Engineer for their Onboard Field Response team in Mountain View, CA. This role involves leading engineering analysis and responses to unexpected events in their autonomous vehicle fleet, requiring strong leadership in software engineering and organizational skills.
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Job Summary
The role involves leading the engineering analysis and response to novel, rare, or unexpected events encountered by the Waymo Driver fleet in the field.
This position blends software engineering leadership with Site Reliability Engineering principles to ensure reliability for a distributed, mobile, real-world system.
Candidates must have excellent influence without authority skills and a focus on value add to the company and team.
Matching Summary
Match Score: 75
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Waymo is seeking a Principal Software Engineer for their Onboard Field Response team in Mountain View, CA. This role involves leading engineering analysis and responses to unexpected events in their autonomous vehicle fleet, requiring strong leadership in software engineering and organizational skills.
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Salary
Base: $349,000 - $431,000 USD; Bonus/Equity: Eligible for discretionary annual bonus program and equity incentive plan; Benefits: Generous Company benefits program subject to eligibility requirements
Skills & Requirements
Must-have
10+ years leading large-scale production software systems
5+ years organizational leadership experience
Experience organizing and running oncall rotations
Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or Engineering
Nice-to-have
Leading hybrid hardware/software production systems
Experience with modern deep ML and large scale models
Track record of change in 1000+ person organizations
Key Requirements
Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
10+ years experience leading large-scale production software systems
5+ years experience as an organizational leader managing people
Experience organizing and running oncall rotations